fourmiller
French, verb/fuʁ.mi.je/
fourmiller is spelled F-O-U-R-M-I-L-L-E-R (10 letters) and appears about once in every 48 million words in written French, the 219,133rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fourmiller is a French verb meaning “to swarm, to be full of” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Remuer, s’agiter en grand nombre, à la façon des fourmis”.
What does fourmiller mean in English?
verb
- 1
to swarm, to be full of
- 2
to tingle
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Remuer, s’agiter en grand nombre, à la façon des fourmis. 2. Être réunis en grand nombre. 3. Être affecté d’un picotement comme si l’on sentait courir des fourmis sous la peau. 4. Abonder en.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of fourmiller
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- fourmillant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- fourmillé participle past
- fourmille first-person indicative present
- fourmilles indicative present second-person
- fourmillons first-person indicative plural
- fourmillez indicative plural present
- fourmillent indicative plural present
- fourmillais first-person imperfect indicative
- fourmillait imperfect indicative singular
- fourmillions first-person imperfect indicative
- fourmilliez imperfect indicative plural
- fourmillaient imperfect indicative plural
- fourmillai first-person historic indicative
- fourmillas historic indicative past
- fourmilla historic indicative past
- fourmillâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce fourmiller?
- /fuʁ.mi.je/
- \fuʁ.mi.je\
- [fuʁ.mi.je]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to fourmiller
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is fourmiller in French?
fourmiller appears about once in every 48 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).